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Have the Saints Seen the Last of Mark "Shaken Up on the Play" Campbell?

Just got this little juicy tidbit of information in my email this morning. Apparently, the NFL Networks Scott Hanson says Mark Campbell might be calling it quits.

NFL Network’s Scott Hanson reports that former New Orleans Saints TE Mark Campbell is leaning toward retirement, but he’s willing to return for an 11th NFL season if “the right situation” comes along.

First of all Hanson uses the word "former." That's harsh. I hate to say it but I think Campbell's time with the Saints has come to an end. Shockey still has to prove himself, Billy Miller played awesome last year, the team doesn't have too much money to spend and the money it does have would better go toward defensive free agents. Mark may be waiting for the "right situation" but I don't expect he will find it in New Orleans.

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said in his article yesterday that he doesn’t expect Mark back. That would seem to make sense since Pay-Loo just signed a different Campbell at TE. I’d like to see him back next season just so me and Stu can have a reason to hold our breath every time he has a pass thrown his way. Every time I see him make a catch, I wonder if he’ll will be able to get up off the turf without medical aid.

Go Saints!!!! Deuce may be gone, but he will never be forgotten.

by satchmo26 on Feb 27, 2009 11:19 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

poor Mark, we hardly knew ye

Cause you were limping off the field so often.

rotoworld.com:

Free agent TE Mark Campbell told NFL.com’s Scott Hanson that he is leaning towards retirement.
Campbell says he’d keep playing if the right situation came along, but that’s unlikely. The 33-year-old suffered what was reported to be a severe knee injury last November and doesn’t offer anything in the pass game.

I have video captures that I’ll put up here shortly. I’ve watched them probably 50 times and I now have some empathy for the guy, he did get beat up. One is clearly a concussion (he has to be steered back to his sideline), in another he takes a helmet between the shoulder blades and gets pile driven into frozen ground (knocked the air out of him) and the last is in KC, the big one.

It ain't no good
if there's too much wood.

by stujo4 on Feb 27, 2009 11:28 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Just to be clear

I really like Mark and I very much appreciated the time he took last summer to write those “Soup of the Day” articles, which were posted on the Saints’ website. I think he’s a classy guy. Remember the video he shot with Scott Fujita last year at some restaurant? It was kinda funny and also kinda gay….not that there’s anything wrong with that. I think the two of them were feeding each other sushi or something.

Go Saints!!!! Deuce may be gone, but he will never be forgotten.

by satchmo26 on Feb 27, 2009 11:46 AM CST reply actions   1 recs

rec'd it

I'm down with G-Dub.

by stujo4 on Feb 27, 2009 12:34 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

We still have the Memorial Mark Campbell Trainer's Table

Although it could become the Jeremy Shockey Memorial Trainer’s Table if he can’t stay healthy.

by Steve the fan on Feb 27, 2009 12:50 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

dan cambell, marks replacement is one of the better blocking TEs in the league. this is a big step up ,and another job well done by the front office.

by r c a on Feb 27, 2009 11:27 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

yeah, and if that gets us a crunching TE blocker who can come in on short yardage runs...

and not blow assignments like Shockey did on occasion last year, we will immediately be better

The Detroit Lions are on the clock!

by HansDat on Feb 28, 2009 10:03 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

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